"Excellence in German Shepherd Temperament is our Specialty and our Breeding Standard for Over 30 Years"

Welcome to our Home on the Internet

Left to right - Susan, Tom, Lucas, and Andrea Forrest

Vom Waldenhaus German Shepherds is a small, very
specialized breeding and training facility located on 120 wooded
acres in the middle of the Mark Twain National Forest in South Central Missouri.

We have dedicated 3 acres for our kennel facility and the remainder (wooded land) for our training area. Our nearest
neighbor is over a mile away. Visitors are welcome to visit our
German Shepherd Paradise anytime by appointment. This way we
can set aside enough time to answer your questions and for you get to
know who we are.

We made the decision many years ago when we started, to be a "private" German Shepherd breeding kennel, not a commercial operation, We do not sell wholesale to pet stores, brokers or anyone who intends to resell. We will only sell to "private" individuals who are seeking a truly wonderful family companion. Our breeding and basic kennel management is based on a life
time of wholelistic approaches to improving and maintaining healthy
vigorous German Shepherds. We only produce 3 to 4 litters in a year.

Our German Shepherd Breeding kennel is closed to all outside disease and pestilence. We eliminated
fleas from our kennel some 25 years ago and that was a GIANT step
toward eliminating a lot of associated disease and illness like
tapeworm, etc. We also stopped doing stud service and boarding at the same time,
which cut down on a lot of transient potential problems.

We invested
in a separate housing facility, which is outside of our regular kennel
whelping and breeding facility. Here is where new potential breeding
candidates, fully vaccinated young adults that make regular visits to
town to be socialized, are kept in pairs in very natural, large open,
graveled pens. These pens, as are all of our pens are larger than most
peoples back yards. Only after a GSD has been separated from the
heart of the kennel for 45 days and monitored for disease is it allowed
into the breeding, whelping area. It's extra precaution and extra work,
but having our GSD friends, happy and virtually sickness free is
worth it. All of this without the daily use of dangerous chemical
sprays and dips so common at most kennels.

These dogs are like our
children and the bonus is that our Vet bills are usually only for
vaccination medications, preventative heart worm testing and
medications, preliminary and OFA hip x-rays.

The Forrest Family has been raised by and has been raising
imported German Shepherds since my Great Grandfather, Roland Forrest's
day before the Great Depression. It is in our blood to be around these
magnificent animals. We at Vom Waldenhaus have been carrying on
this family tradition, since the spring of 1976,
over 30 years now.

We hope you enjoy viewing our website and the quality of family companions we strive to produce.

These pages will be updated and changed often, as we offer other German Shepherds for saleso bookmark us and keep checking back with us to see what is new.

You can reserve your German Shepherd Puppy today with a deposit on your credit card

Feel free to E-mail us at GSD@Waldenhaus.com with any questions, suggestions or tell us what you think of our web site.
Thanks for visting our online German Shepher Kennel and remember to your favorites, Susan, Andrea, and Lucas Forrest